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Man, 60, faces N700k fraud charge in Lagos
A 60-year-old landlord, Olasina Giwa, on Monday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos charged with fraud…
Police shoot doctor during peaceful protest in Owerri
A member of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Imo State branch, participating in a peaceful demonstration against the concession of…
Nigeria’s economy to grow by 3.78%
Nigeria’s economy, reeling from the drop in oil prices, is expected to grow by 3.78 percent this year, up from…
Gary Neville should apologise and resign, says Canizares
Gary Neville should have apologised and resigned as Valencia coach after their humiliating Copa del Rey defeat, says former goalkeeper…
200 million girls and women living with Female Genital Mutilation – UNICEF
At least 200 million girls and women worldwide have been subjected to female genital mutilation with half of those living…
Five remanded for murder, rape, armed robbery
Dedeigbo Ayodeji The High Court Ikorodu, Lagos State, presided over by Honorable Justice M. A. Savage has remanded five suspects,…
Nigerian elites trying to slow down anti-corruption war – Osinbajo
Pressure from some Nigerian elites to slow down the ongoing fight against graft would not deter the Buhari presidency from…
TUC blasts Fashola over increase in electricity tariff
Eromosele Ebhomele The Nigerian Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has incurred the wrath of the country’s…
NSE moves 2.64bn shares worth N3.74bn in bear trading
Investors’ at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday staked N3.74 billion on 2.64 billion shares exchanged in 3,057 deals.…
Ai’sha Buhari launches maternal, child healthcare week in Kebbi
The wife of the President Hajiya Aisha Buhari, on Thursday flagged-off the Maternal and New- Born Child Health(MNCH) week in…
Lagos set for Access Bank Lagos City Marathon on Saturday
Taiwo Adelu All is now set as Lagos State Government set to host over 20,000 local and international marathoners in…
Hawkers make brisk business ahead of Lagos City Marathon
With less than 48 hours to the Access Lagos City Marathon, hawkers make brisk business in front of the Teslim…
Kogi govt., NLC in fresh row over salary arrears
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Kogi chapter, has said that the state workforce would not participate in the fresh screening…
Tell Edo people your deputy’s crime, former lawmaker tells Oshiomhole
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has been urged by the former Minority Whip of the Federal House…
FAAN battles Arik Airline over unpaid N11.2bn debt
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal high court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, has adjourned till 10 February a N11.2 billion and…
Delta Scholarship Board scribe siphoned N169m – EFCC witness
The trial of the Executive Secretary of Delta State Scholarship Board, Peter Amromanoh and his accountant, Andrew Boji Nkwor continued…
Lagos demolishes Baba Ijebu’s 4-storey building
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has demolished a four storey-building belonging to the founder of the popular Premier Lotto…
Dasukigate: Metuh gave me N25m – witness
A witness in the ongoing trial of the National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, and…
FG to upgrade cancer control programme
The Federal Government on Thursday said it will upgrade the Cancer Control Programme to National Agency for the Control of…
Discrimination: Physically challenged student sues Rivers university
Eromosele Ebhomele Jane Ottah, a student with disability, has sued the management of the Rivers State University of Science and…
Role of law in mitigating HIV/AIDS burden in Nigeria —UNDP
Kazeem Ugbodaga The United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, says the Legal Environment Assessment, LEA, of a nation is key to…
Humanitarian crises: Buhari calls for greater global support
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in London called on the global community to give greater support to countries whose populace are…
N29bn Fraud: Court admits exhibits against Nyako, others
The trial of a former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, his son, Senator Abdul-Aziz Nyako, Abubakar Aliyu and Zulkifikk…
Viber Apps announces first public chats launch in Nigeria
Viber, one of the leading messaging and calling apps with more than 664 million unique users worldwide, has opened its…
Doyin Okupe blasts Oyegun over Supreme Court comments
Doyin Okupe, former special assistant to former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo on (Media & Publicity) has blasted the national chairman…
Rivers PDP slams Oyegun
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Chairman, Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Felix Obuah says there is nothing…
NDLEA arrests 25 drug addicts in Kaduna
Femi Adi/Kaduna National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Thursday in Kaduna raided a popular drug addicts’ hideout at Sabon-Tasha, Kaduna…
Lagos lawmaker counsels on cancer prevention
Eromosele Ebhomele The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Health Services, Segun Olulade, has urged Nigerians to desist…
We have always regarded the media as partners – Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says he has always regarded the media as partners, hence the…